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17 Bible Verses About Infidelity

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  • Exodus 20:14 forbids adultery, and Leviticus 20:10 gives the death penalty to both the man and the woman.
  • Malachi 2:14 calls a man’s wife his “wife by covenant” and says the Lord was witness to the marriage.
  • Joseph refuses his master’s wife as “sin against God” (Genesis 39:9); David’s adultery with Bathsheba leads to Uriah’s death and to the confession of Psalm 51.
  • Jesus traces adultery to the lustful look (Matthew 5:28) and names sexual immorality as the exception in his teaching on divorce (Matthew 19:9), an exception absent from Mark 10:11-12.
  • Hosea 2 and James 4:4 use infidelity as a picture of God’s people turning to other gods or to the world.

The Bible forbids adultery outright and treats unfaithfulness in marriage as the breaking of a covenant that God himself witnessed. The commandment is Exodus 20:14, the covenant language comes from Malachi 2:14-15, the law punished both partners (Leviticus 20:10), and Proverbs 5 and 6 warn a son at length against another man’s wife. Two narratives show the choice from both sides: Joseph refuses his master’s wife (Genesis 39:9), and David takes Bathsheba (2 Samuel 11:2-4) and later confesses in Psalm…

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Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version.

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